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Making the feast easy
Why not?
Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant was once something only people in John Cheever stories would do, those lonely souls who were cut off from their families or who had drunk away their fortunes.
Now everybody's doing it. Or at least a lot...Tags: Annapolis, Hunt Valley, Thanksgiving, Employees, Death and Dying Customs
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Reminders of the 'Greatest Game' filled John Unitas' Golden Arm
Too bad we can't jump in the car today and drive to Johnny Unitas' Golden Arm restaurant in Rodgers Forge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants with a hearty meal and a couple of...Tags: Maryland, Baltimore Colts, Ceremonies, Football, Gino Marchetti
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Ralph Ellison, Nathanael West, Charles Dickens, Martin Amis, NATO
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Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt
Jacket CopyNovelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write.... -
What it takes to get writers writing
Jacket CopyWhen it comes to writing, authors can be pretty superstitious.... -
Beer Makes Men Smarter, University of Illinois Study Finds
pix11.com | @JuliaTheWriterBeer makes men smarter-- well, kind of--according to a study conducted at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Researchers found that men who consumed a couple of beers were better at solving brain teasers than men who were completely sober. The...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Medical Research, Illinois
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'Mad Men' recap: Fright night
Show Tracker"Mad Men" travels to the dark side--the really, really dark side.... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Book calendar events for the week of March 27, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: Panelists include Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg and Damon Lindelof. Meltdown Comics, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. $12-$15. (213) 413-3388. http:/...Tags: Ann Beattie, Christianity, John O'Hara, Mary Kay Place, Damon Lindelof
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'Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar' by Richard Ford
"Work, as you will see, is imagined broadly in these stories - as labor, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit, as memory, as art, and as priestly avocation," writes Richard Ford in his introduction to this wonderful anthology of stories about work,...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Ford, Eudora Welty
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On the big screen: 'Play It as It Lays' [Updated]
Jacket CopyJoan Didion is an acknowledged master of nonfiction, from her breakthrough 1968 essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" to "The Year of Magical Thinking," which won the 2005 National Book Award. Her fiction, however, has always been more... -
Matt Weinstock, Nov. 25, 1960
The Daily MirrorNov. 25, 1960: Matt Weinstock checks in with John Cheever, whoâs in Hollywood doing a treatment of D.H. Lawrenceâs âThe Lost Girl.â âIf the short story, of which I am an enthusiastic addict, has any future, Cheever is one of......
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